The case of an old portrait. Vrublevskaya K.

writer Katerina Vrubblevskaya and her heroine Apollinaria Avilova is almost the same person. When Katerina Vrubelevskaya writes a detective novel, she herself becomes Apollinaria Lazareva Avilova - a free, educated, emancipated, smart, erotic, insightful young woman of the late XIX century - and it is accepted to investigate secrets, fatal, puzzling, unexpected puzzles, too, the end of the 19th century.

In the novel “The Case of the Old Portrait”, the Dowager Polina Avilova... falls in love again. Her friend - young artist Andrei Protasov - leaves for Paris and mysteriously disappears. Avilova goes to France. She gets acquainted with the Paris Bohemia (Toulouse-Latra and other artists), enters into difficult relations with the police, encroach on her life, but Polina brings the investigation to the end and reveals the secret of the life and death of the Russian artist.